Enjoy An Organic Thanksgiving Feast At Monsanto Of All Places

Enjoy An Organic Thanksgiving Feast At Monsanto Of All Places

Rev. Billy Talen will say grace, among other things

Looking for a ironic way to spend Thanksgiving? Then head to St. Louis and enjoy an "organic, local, non-GMO and pesticide free" meal at Monsanto, the controversial multinational agrochemical giant. Activists, including the theatrical rabble-rouser and former New York City mayoral candidate Rev. Billy Talen, are staging a demonstration at the company's headquarters on Thanksgiving day with a planned holiday meal intended to showcase foods that contrast sharply with the company's famous genetically modified crops. (The protesters are also urging non-participants to keep their own holiday feasts as natural and wholesome as possible by signing this pledge.)

Specific details about the menu are sketchy, but a rep for the irreverent reverend notes that vegetarian and vegan options will be available, and that the food is being donated and will be prepared that morning at a homeless shelter by local volunteers. Mealtime is scheduled for 1 p.m. Second helpings could come later, although probably not the organic kind. Rev. Talen, after all, has a knack for getting arrested at these things — more than 50 times, according to his YouTube page— and who knows what sort of processed slop they'll be serving in lockup.